Definition of "tiara"
tiara
noun
plural tiaras
Quotations
I had scarcely taken my accustomed low seat at her side, when, opening a casket which stood on the table near her, she took out a diamond tiara, and, placing it in my hair, pointed to the glass. 'Ah, my child!' she exclaimed, 'you well become your future crown!' and, without waiting for my reply, she informed me that my father's negotiations for my marriage had been completely successful, and that the King of Poland had demanded my hand.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 200
verb
third-person singular simple present tiaras, present participle tiaraing, simple past and past participle tiaraed
(rare, transitive) To adorn as a tiara.
Quotations
As Excelsior was near the center of the Trek, the great concourse of ships tiaraed the salon’s horizon line, a triumphant jeweled city of coruscating light.
1974, Norman Spinrad, “Riding the Torch”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Threads of Time: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction, Nashville, Tenn., Camden, N.J., New York, N.Y.: Thomas Nelson Inc., page 155
(very rare, transitive) To adorn with a tiara.
Quotations
Old Dandolo! and where are they who learned / To feel the fire with which thy bosom burned, / The sons, who caught from thee the spark divine, / And made their country worthy to be thine; / Laid conquered regions at her feet, and all / Tiaraed her with nations; that her pall / Was one vast universe of gorgeous things; / Her very vassals, arbiters of kings.
1833 August, “Anna Erizzo. A Tale of Venice.”, in The Knickerbocker: or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume II, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Peabody & Co. […], stanza III, page 82
Comely Betty Clayton, the eighth Miss Lifeguard and the current Miss Manasquan (she was the queen of the Hook and Ladder Ball) tiara-ed her successor, who seems to be following in the former queen’s footsteps.
1954 September 10, Kurt Gruenwald, “Around The Town”, in The Coast Star, volume LXX, number 30, Manasquan, N.J., page two
Gentleman-about-town Bruce Gerald Webster, who has jeweled and tiaraed many a Tulsa woman, Friday was officially “crowned” by members of the Junior Opera Guild.
1980 April 12, Julie Blakely, Lou Ann Ruark, “News of People and Places”, in Tulsa World, 75th year, number 209, Tulsa, Okla., section B, page 3, column 1